What is a worldview? A worldview is some one’s prospective on life. Worldviews are based on someone’s actions, what they believe in, and what they think. In this essay I will be explaining the way I perceive and comprehend specific events that developed my worldview. I will also be comparing the worldviews of the characters in the movie “The Hiding Place” along with my own worldviews.
Firstly, I want to talk about Ten Boom family’s worldview in the movie The hiding place. The Hiding place is about a religious family who is stuck in the Nazi controlled part of Holland. The Boom family had a strong religious/ biblical worldview. The Boom family always included God in everyway possible. Corrie ten Boom was a very dedicated woman. She spent much
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Casper had such a strict religious conscious, that when he was in line with the Jews, he decided to put on one of their yellow stars, in my opinion to symbolize that everyone’s the same. Another person that had such a big impact in this movie was Betsie ten Boom. Betsie was the sister of Corrie, and she played a major role in hiding the Jews from the Nazis. The ten Boom family always talked about how their doors will be open for who ever god sends. Jews began to hear about what the ten Boom family was offering, and began to move in one by one. Even though Jews kept finding their way to the ten Boom household, they were still greeted warmly and all got an opportunity hide there. This was true because the family believed that god was sending those Jews to their home for love and protection. I thought it was courageous how the ten Boom family could put their life in jeopardy, by rescuing as many Jews as they could. If they didn't have such a religious worldview, they could have just turned down those people and lived a safer life with no risk. However, God had inspired them to help these innocent people who came knocking on their door asking for